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Far Out Lounge & Stage

8504 S. Congress Ave., 78745, Austin, TX, US

www.thefaroutaustin.com/

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Doors open: 18:00

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…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead biography

…And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, abbreviated Trail of Dead, is an American alternative rock band from Austin, Texas.

The two chief members, Conrad Keely, formed the band in 1993 and Jason Reece, who originally met as children in Hawaii. The two moved to Austin, Texas where they expanded to include guitarist Kevin Allen, and bassist Neil Busch and also picked up the moniker You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, later lengthening it to …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead. By 1995 they released their first song “Austen Live Houses,” followed by an eponymous EP, and by early the next year released their first full-length, a self-titled album.

In 2001 the band signed with Interscope Records and released a new EP entitled “Relative Ways.” In 2002 the band released “Source Tags & Codes” which did extremely well, as did the tour that followed. The band went through a bit of a lineup change, taking on Aaron Ford on drums and Jay Leo Phillips on bass, and once their tour was done, went back to the studio to work on their sixth record. That same year they also left Interscope to become an independent band, self-releasing the EP “Festival Thyme” as an album teaser, followed in 2009 by “The Century of Self.”

In 2011, following the release of “Tao of The Dead,”the band announced that the band would be stripped down to a four-piece ensemble. As a foursome, the band continued to release new music and continued to tour. In 2014 they announced that they were working on a ninth album, “IX” through the clever use of an online jigsaw puzzle.

Live reviews

For the last dozen years or so, there are few better live bands than ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead.

Although once notorious for destroying their instruments at the end of shows, the band have backed off that expensive bit of auto-destruction in recent years, but are no less exciting even so.

Able to draw on nearly 15 years of material now, seeing Trail Of Dead live is a chance to hear how they've evolved over the years. Yes, there's still the punk fury of “It Was There That I Saw You”, and they still rip through material like that from the debut album. That being said, their newer, more ambitious material (like “Isis Unveiled”, from their 2009 album Century Of Self) actually tends to steal the show at Trail Of Dead live gigs.

The constant through the band's evolution from its noisy beginnings to its current arty incarnation is the intensity of drummer, co-vocalist and guitarist Jason Reece. His wide-eyed, sweaty, strutting onstage persona makes it pretty clear that these guys mean ever note they play and every word they sing. The excitement that the entire band exudes, in fact, makes them a group worth road-tripping to see play live. They may not smash up their instruments any more, but they will pin your ears back with some of the most visceral and intense rock and roll on the planet.

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